Luke 17:22

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold `it';

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς μαθητάς, Ἐλεύσονται ἡμέραι, ὅτε ἐπιθυμήσετε μίαν τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ Υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἰδεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ὄψεσθε.

Transliteration

Eipen de pros the mathētas, Eleusontai hēmerai, when you will epithymēsete one of the hēmerōn of the Uiou of the anthrōpou idein, and not opsesthe.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *mathētas*: accusative, masculine, plural - disciples
• *Eleusontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd plural - will come
• *hēmerai*: nominative, feminine, plural - days
• *epithymēsete*: future active indicative, 2nd plural - you will desire
• *hēmerōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - days
• *Uiou*: genitive, masculine, singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of man
• *idein*: aorist active infinitive - to see
• *opsesthe*: future middle indicative, 2nd plural - you will see

Word Meanings

• *mathētas*: disciples/pupils/followers
• *Eleusontai*: will come/will arrive
• *epithymēsete*: you will desire/long for/crave
• *Uiou tou anthrōpou*: Son of Man (messianic title)
• *idein*: to see/behold/perceive

Referenced Verses

• Luke 5:35 : 35 but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'
• Matt 9:15 : 15 And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.
• Mark 2:20 : 20 but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast -- in those days.
• Luke 13:35 : 35 `Lo, your house is being left to you desolate, and verily I say to you -- ye may not see me, till it may come, when ye may say, Blessed `is' he who is coming in the name of the Lord.'
• John 7:33-36 : 33 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me; 34 ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.' 35 The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks; 36 what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'
• John 8:21-24 : 21 therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.' 22 The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?' 23 and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world; 24 I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'
• John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
• John 13:33 : 33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.
• John 16:5-7 : 5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go? 6 but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart. 7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
• John 16:16-22 : 16 a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.' 17 Therefore said `some' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?' 18 they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.' 19 Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me? 20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become. 21 `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world. 22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,
• John 17:11-13 : 11 and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we; 12 when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled. 13 `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;